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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/8/2019

When Prime Minister Theresa May met with EU leaders in Brussels, the latter refused to reopen negotiations on her Brexit agreement. However, European Council President Donald Tusk spoke highly of the plan proposed by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party and Mrs. May’s presumed successor as prime minister.

In other news, a second woman has come forward with allegations against Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, saying that he sexually molested her. This time the alleged assault was a forcible rape back in the year 2000.

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One of the attorneys representing Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family says he’s confident that the media entities that smeared the 16-year-old boy will eventually be brought to justice in a Covington, Ky., courtroom.

“We clearly think that we’re going to be able to get these issues in front of a jury, and frankly, that jury is most likely to be here in Covington Kentucky,” said Sandmann family attorney Todd McMurtry Thursday. He added, “And this whole community knows what happened.”

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is infiltrating the Democratic Party across the country. Communists, some openly, some secretly, are working in Democratic campaigns, holding Democratic Party leadership positions, and even running for public office on the Democratic Party ballot line. The communists also are pushing their policies inside the Democratic Party, to the point that it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the CPUSA and Democratic Party programs. Many comrades also work closely with influential congressmembers or U.S. senators.

Video surveillance footage of the FBI raid on Roger Stone’s house appears to show authorities giving directions to awaiting CNN reporters before the arrest, prompting fresh speculation as to whether the news network was tipped off in advance.

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I am very excited for this new episode in our national drama, in which the world’s richest man publicly accuses allies of the president of extorting him with private photos of his genitalia if he doesn’t stop accusing them of politically driven hatchet jobs.

Air France’s enthusiasm has not cooled down now,” said Di Maio on the regional election stump in Abruzzo.

As proof of this, he said the work Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) rail group “is doing with private partners at the moment concerns other private partners”.

On Friday the Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper reported that Air France-KLM is pulling out of the Alitalia rescue.

It is doing so, the Italian financial daily said, “for political and institutional reasons following the recall to Paris of the ambassador to Rome”.

FS, which is handling the rescue, had been expecting a formal commitment by the Air France-KLM board, which was reported to be considering a part in the operation alongside Delta, “but yesterday Paris’s no arrived”, Il Sole said.

EU bureaucrats have backed plans by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that would keep the UK closely aligned to the EU, after refusing to reopen negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement with Prime Minister Theresa May.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk told Mrs May on Thursday that the Labour leader’s plans were a “promising way out” of the Brexit deadlock after MPs have refused to back the prime minister’s deal, according to Sky News.

(ANSA) — Paris, February 8 — The French people are Italy’s reference point, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio told Le Monde Friday a day after France recalled its ambassador following Di Maio’s meeting with Yellow Vest members in Paris on Tuesday.

“We look to your people as a reference point and not as an enemy, and the political and vision differences between the French and Italian governments must not impact the historical relationship of friendship that unites our two people and our two States,” he said in a letter to the French daily.

In the letter, Di Maio also said “for this reason, as a representative of my country, I reaffirm our executive’s will to collaborate on the questions that are most dear to our heart”.

The woman largely expected to take over as chancellor of Germany has echoed calls by her mentor Angela Merkel and French ally Emmanuel Macron for a “European army” to avoid becoming a “plaything” of Russia, China, and the United States on the global stage.

Dr Merkel’s successor as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (also referred to as AKK) made the comments on Tuesday during a speech in the EU capital Brussels where she outlined her party’s campaign themes ahead of May’s European Parliament elections.

Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, are set to hold the first overseas Visegrad summit in Jerusalem, Israel, this month.

Media reports that the event is supposed to take place between the 18th and 19th of February with the spokesmen for the governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia confirming to Agence France-Presse that Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini will be attending.

(ANSA) — Florence, February 8 — Italian police on Friday arrested a 20-year-old Moroccan man on suspicion of robbing at least eight pedestrians in a few hours in the historic centre of Florence Thursday night.

A court has found a man guilty of shooting a starter pistol at a bus containing a local populist Sweden Democrats politician in August, shortly before the national election.

The district court sentenced the man, who was not identified, to a fine of 21,000 Swedish Kronor (£1,751) as well as community service following his convictions for arms violations and illegal threats, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

No major decisions should be made before the European parliamentary elections “when European citizens will make their choice”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a meeting of Visegrad Group prime ministers and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Cooperation between the V4 and Germany must continue after the EP elections in May, Orban told the press after the summit. The talks were characterised by “a positive and sincere tone,” he added.

(ANSA) — Pianella, February 7 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday that he was ready to have talks with French President Emmanuel Macron after Paris recalled its ambassador to Rome for consultations. “We don’t want to row with anyone and we are not interested in controversies,” League leader Salvini said. “We are practical people and we defend the interests of the Italian people. “Extremely willing to meet President Macron and the French government, sit around around and discuss three fundamental issues — no more pushbacks (of migrants at the Italian-French border), no more Italian terrorists (living freely) in France and no more harm to our commuters, who are hit every day with French border checks that last hours”.

Britain’s Electoral Commission has officially recognised the Brexit Party as an official and legal political party in the United Kingdom, which Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said is a force to fight back against the betrayal of the 2016 referendum.

As the government’s apparent intention to delay Brexit beyond the legal March 29th date moves beyond rumour to open secret, Britain’s Prime Minister insisted after disastrous talks with the European Union that she would be working to “deliver Brexit, and to deliver it on time.”

Hindu activist of Tamil Nadu State Political Party hacked to death by suspected Jihadi PFI members for resisting Islamic conversion. Five Muslims arrested so far.

B Upendran | HENB | Thanjavur | Feb 7, 2019::Tension gripped Tirubhuvanam on Wednesday following the murder of a former PMK (Pattali Makkal Katchi — is a State Party of Indian state Tamil Nadu in the south) functionary allegedly in front of his son, as reported by Express News Service in The New Indian Express. The Murder was took place on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified was V Ramalingam who had some links with various Hindu Organisations active to resist Love Jihad and Islamic Conversion of the Dalit Hindu people in Tamil Nadu.

Police ascertained PFI (Popular Front of India) Jihadi hands behind the murder after divulging a Video footage where it was seen that the deceased man entered into an altercation with the Jihadi groups members in order to protest Islamic conversion in a Dalit Hindu area, just hours before the deadly hacking took place in a very gruesome IS style. Police is on a manhunt for a Jihadi leader Rasudeen for the murder of the Hindu leader. In the meanwhile Thiruvidaimaruthur police arrested five Jihadis viz. Nizam Ali (33), Riswan (23), and Sharbudheen (60), of Thirubhuvanam, Azarudheen (26), of Thiruvidaimaruthur and Mohammed Ryas (27) of Kurichimalai on Thursday…

Trump previously met with Kim in Singapore last summer, where the North Korean leader agreed to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”

Washington: US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet for a second much-anticipated summit in Hanoi, as preparations kick into high gear for the peace talks.

Trump announced the exact location on Twitter — only the country, Vietnam, was previously known — for the follow-on to the leaders’ summit in Singapore last year as he hailed “very productive” preparatory talks between diplomats from the two countries.

“My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong Un,” Trump said…

Civil society activists say when local populations complain that their rights and community endowments are being grossly violated by the Chinese companies, the government overlooks the issue. But in April 2018, Cameroon’s minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development sanctioned three Chinese companies. Hong Kong, Peace Mining, and Lu & Lang were banned from carrying out gold mining activities and their officials ordered to leave the region.

Peace Mining and Lu & Lang were indicted for environmental degradation as well as recurrent deadly conflicts with locals fueled by the companies’ Chinese employees. For its part, Hong Kong company did not even have an authorization to carry out mining activities.

Despite the sanctions, The Epoch Times learned that some of the suspended companies have continued operations.

BRASILIA (Reuters) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has no fever or pain and is quickly overcoming a bout of pneumonia, signs that his medical condition is improving, spokesman General Otavio Rego Barros said on Friday.

On Monday—amid the Venezuelan presidential crisis in which human rights activists and international observers accused Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro of an illegitimate election—Scripps College hosted two speakers to defend the regime against perceived foreign intervention in the country’s crisis.

Scripps has previously hosted officials and speakers who were either supportive or sympathetic to the murderous Maduro regime, including last November.

This month, the eyes of the world have been on Venezuela, where millions have protested in opposition of the socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.

At this week’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump offered a stinging critique of Maduro, as well as a warning to those wanting socialism in the United States, saying, “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”

Princeton’s Professor Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor had the hottest take on Trump’s State of the Union this year, tweeting out that the USA should “abolish ICE” before launching into every available insultagainst the President and the proposed border wall.

(ANSA) — Strasbourg, February 7 — The commissioner for human rights of the Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatovic, on Thursday expressed “deep concern” at the Italian government’s policy to close ports to ships carrying migrants rescued at sea and other measures taken recently in a letter sent to Premier Giuseppe Conte.

The commissioner asked the government “to ensure that the human rights of rescued people are not put at risk due to the current disagreements between countries on their landing, and that the humanitarian aspect is always prioritized”.

The Labour Party has abandoned its 2017 manifesto commitment to ending Britain’s participation in the European Union’s Free Movement migration regime after Brexit, according to its Shadow Attorney-General.

Baroness Sharmishta ‘Shami’ Chakrabarti, a “human rights” lobbyist with a ubiquitous media presence prior to her elevation to the House of Lords as a Labour peer in 2016, told BBC interrogator-in-chief Andrew Neil that keeping Britain tied to the European Union’s unlimited and effectively unvetted Free Movement migration regime would be “a matter for negotiation” under a Labour government — at least eight times.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal comparing recent abortion legislation to the ignominious Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that ruled that blacks were not human persons.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has entered into a sparring match with Governor Andrew Cuomo over recently enacted abortion legislation, accusing the governor of “hiding behind labels” rather than debating facts about abortion.

Each year, colleges spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, some even millions, in an effort to foster more diverse campuses. Universities allocate funds for diversity centers, peer groups, and inclusivity measures all designed to make non-traditional and minority students feel more welcome. What is unknown, however, is whether or not these pricey diversity efforts actually pay off.

At UC Berkeley, diversity-focused employees cost over 2.3 million dollars annually, according to 2017 salary records obtained by Campus Reform from the University of California Office of the President.

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychology professor signed onto a Title IX legal complaint against Ivy League school Cornell University claiming anti-male bias.

University of Southern California Ph.D. student Kursat Christoff Pekgoz filed the complaint and more than 185 professors, scholars, and activists signed onto it. The complaint alleges instances of anti-male bias by Cornell, according to documents obtained by Campus Reform.

Prominent human rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn issued a scathing indictment of New York’s recently passed abortion legislation, saying on Friday that the law permits practices “more barbaric than that of the Chinese Communist Party.”

Father John I. Jenkins, the president of the University of Notre Dame, slammed New York governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday for legislation expanding abortion access and removing protections for mothers and babies.

Controlling the means of production and interfering with a country’s food supply appears to be a constant theme of totalitarianism. Undoubtedly (from an historical point of view at least), the consumption of nutrient dense animal source foods is associated with wealth, health, physical strength and intelligence. In combination, these attributes empower the individual and enable independence from the state.

It is not hard to deduce, that the end goal of this contemporary plant-based diet agenda, is not about treating animals with humanity, but treating humans like animals.

First, environmentalist ideologies are used for redistribution of wealth. Traditionally, communist states reallocated wealth through revolution. Over the years, however, this approach became increasingly difficult. Therefore, environmentalists adopted indirect strategies, forcing people to quietly give up their freedom and property in the name of preventing environmental tragedy. The group Friends of the Earth states, “A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.” Mayer Hillman, a leading green thinker, said that “rationing is the only way to prevent runaway climate change,” and “[carbon rationing] has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not,” because “democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it.” …

Klaus summarized his views: “If we take the reasoning of the environmentalists seriously, we find that theirs is an anti-human ideology.” He agreed with biologist Ivan Brezina that environmentalism is not a rational, scientific answer to ecological crisis, but boils down to an overall denial of civilization.

[The Epoch Times is serializing a translation from the Chinese of a new book, How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World [https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world], by the editorial team of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party [https://www.theepochtimes.com/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction_3942.html]. ]